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Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally and Premier Danielle Smith met with lease holders group after calls for Morinville-St. Albert MLA's removal from file
The president of a group fighting to help almost 200 Alberta seniors and their families get their money back from so-called life-lease housing arrangements says a meeting Thursday with the province "was very productive."
The new Alberta Life Lease Protection Society Society wants to resolve issues with long repayment queues at Christenson Group of Companies retirement communities, and advocate for legislative change.
A group of concerned Albertans claim they are each owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after signing so-called "life leases" with Christenson Communities retirement homes.
A group of Albertans representing families who've signed so-called life leases with retirement homes are concerned about access to hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money.
Former residents of several Christenson Group of Companies retirement buildings have been waiting in queues — in some cases up to two years — to be repaid hundreds of thousands of dollars they put into life leases. The Christenson Group president says they'll be repaid, but it will take time.